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The following is a list of deliberate absence from work related to specific working conditions (strikes) or due to general unhappiness with the political order (general strikes).
== Chronological list of strikes

Contents

Eighteenth Century

Nineteenth century

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

See also

Sources

External links

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Seventeenth Century

★ Maine indentured Servants' and Fisherman's Mutiny (1636, British Colonies)

★ Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot (1661, British Colonies)

★ Maryland Indentured Servants' Strike (1663, British Colonies)

★ Boston ship Carpenter's Protest (1675 British Colonies)

★ Bacon's Rebellion (1676, Virginia, British Colonies)

★ New York City Carters' Strike (1677, British Colonies)

★ New York City Carters' Strike (1684, British Colonies)

Eighteenth Century

★ New York City Bakers' Strike (1741, British Colonies)

★ Florida Indentured Servants' Revolt (1768, British Colonies)

★ New York City Tailors' Strike (1768, British Colonies)

★ Hibernia, New Jersey, Ironworks Strike (1774, British Colonies)

★ Shay's Rebellion (1786, Massachusetts, U.S.)

★ Philadelphia Carpenters - First Strike in the U.S. Building Trades (1791, U.S.)

★ Philadelphia River Pilots' Strike (1792, U.S.)

Nineteenth century

★ Philadelphia shoemakers guilty of criminal conspiracy after striking for higher wages (1806, U.S.)

★ Pawtucket Rhode Island, Textile Strike (1824, U.S.)

★ Boston House Carpenters' Strike (1825, U.S.)

★ Philadelphia Carpenters' Strike (1827, U.S.)

★ Paterson New Jersey, Textile Strike (1828, U.S.)

★ Lynn Massachusetts, Shoebinders' Protest (1831, U.S.)

★ Boston Ship Carpenters' Ten-hour Strike (1832, U.S.)

★ Lynn Massachusetts, Shoebinders' Protest (1833, U.S.)

★ Manayunk Pennsylvania, Textile Protest (1833, U.S.)

★ New York City Carpenters' Strike (1833, U.S.)

★ Lowell Massechusetts, Mill Women's Strike (1834, U.S.)

★ Manayunk Pennsylvania, Textile Protest (1834, U.S.)

★ Paterson New Jersey, Textile Strike (1835, U.S.)

★ Lowell Massechusetts, Mill Women's Strike (1836, U.S.)

★ New York City Tailors' Strike (1836, U.S.)

★ Philadelphia Bookbinders' Strike (1836, U.S.)

★ New York City Tailors' Strike (1850, U.S.)

★ New England Shoemakers' Strike (1860, U.S.)

★ Molders' Lockout (1866, U.S.)

★ Sheffield Outrages (1860s, UK)

★ Anthracite Coal Strike (1868, U.S.)

★ Troy New York, Collar Launderesses' Strike (1869, U.S.)

★ Lynn Massachusetts, Shoe Workers' Strike (1872, U.S.)

★ Tompkins Square Riot (1874, New York, U.S.]]

★ Anthracite Coal Strike (1875, U.S.)

★ Great Railroad Strike (1877, U.S.)

★ Cigarmakers' Strike (1877, U.S.]]

★ Cohoes New York, Cotton Mill Strike (1882, U.S.)

★ Cowboy Strike (1883, U.S.)

★ Lynchburg Virginia, Tobbacco Workers' Strike (1883, U.S.)

★ Molders' Lockout (1883, U.S.)

★ Fall River Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1884, U.S.)

★ Union Pacific Railroad Strike (1884, U.S.)

★ Cloakmakers' General Strike (1885, U.S.)

★ McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Strike (1885, U.S.)

★ Southwest Railroad Strike (1885, U.S.)

★ Yonkers New York, Carpet Weavers' Strike (1885, U.S.)

★ Augusta Georgia, Textile Strike (1886, U.S.)

★ Cowboy Strike (1886, U.S.)

★ Eight-Hour Strikes (1886, U.S.)

★ McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Strike (1886, U.S.)

★ Southwest Railroad Strike (1886, U.S.)

★ Troy New York, Collar Launderesses' Strike (1886, U.S.)

★ Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 (U.S.)

★ Haymarket Riot (1886, U.S.)

★ Bay View Tragedy (1886, U.S.)

★ Port of New York, Longshoremens' Strike (1887, U.S.)

★ Burlington Railroad Strike (1888, U.S.)

★ Cincinnati Shoemakers' Lockout (1888, U.S.)

★ Matchgirls Strike (1888, London)

★ London Dock Strike of 1889

★ Baseball Players' Revolt (1889, U.S.)

★ Fall River Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1889, U.S.)

★ 1890 Australian Maritime Dispute

★ Southampton Dock Strike of 1890 (UK)

★ Carpenters' Strike for the Eight-Hour Day (1890, U.S.)

★ 1891 Australian shearers' strike

★ Savanna Georgia, Black Laborers' Strike (1891, U.S.)

★ Tennessee Miners' Strike (1891, U.S.)

★ Homestead Strike (1892, U.S.) gains national attention

★ Buffalo switchmen's strike (1892, U.S.)

★ Coeur d'Alene Miners' Strike (1892, U.S.)

★ Coxey's Army marches on Washington D.C. (1894, U.S.)

★ Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 (U.S.)

★ Pullman Strike (1894, U.S.)

★ Great Northern Railroad Strike (1894, U.S.)

★ Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike (1894) Birmingham, Alabama

★ Haverhill Massachusetts Shoe Strike (1895, U.S.)

★ Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike (1896))

★ Lattimer Massacre Strike (1897) (Pennsylvania)

★ Marlboro Massachusetts, Shoe Workers' Strike (1888, U.S.)

★ Buffalo New York, Grain Shovellers' Strike (1899, U.S.)

★ Cleveland Ohio, Street Railway Workers' Strike (1899, U.S.)

★ Coeur d'Alene Miners' Strike (1899, U.S.)

★ The Newsboys Strike (1899, New York City, U.S.)

1900s

★ Anthracite Coal Strike (1900, U.S.)

★ Machinists' Strike (1900, U.S.)

★ Penrhyn Quarry lock-out (1900-1903, Wales)

★ U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1901 (U.S.)

★ Machinists' Strike (1901, U.S.)

★ San Francisco Restaurant Workers' Strike (1901, U.S.)

★ The Anthracite Coal Strike (1902, U.S.)

★ Chicago Teamsters' Strike (1902, U.S.)

★ Cripple Creek Colorado, Miners' Strike (1902, U.S.)

★ Colorado Labor Wars, Western Federation of Miners (1903-1904, U.S.)

★ Oxnard Strike of 1903 (U.S.) Suigar Beets

★ Utah Coal Strike (1903, U.S.)

★ New York City Inbterborough Rapid Transit Strike 991904, U.S.)

★ Packinghouse Workers' Strike (1904, U.S.)

★ Santa Fe Railroad Shopmen's Strike (1904, U.S.)

★ Goldfield Nevada, Miners' Strike (1907 U.S.)

★ New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 "Uprising of the 20,000" (1909, U.S.)

★ Georgia Railroad Strike (1909, U.S.)

★ McKees Rocks Pennsylvania, Steel Strike (1909, U.S.)

★ Watertown Connecticut, Arsenal Strike (1909, U.S.)

1910s

★ Bethlehem Steel Strike (1910, U.S.)

★ Cloakmakers' Strike (1910, U.S.)

★ Chicago Clothing Workers' Strike (1910, U.S.)

★ Los Angeles Strike Wave (1910, U.S.)

★ Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910-1911 (U.S.)

★ 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike (UK)

★ Illinois Central and Harriman Lines Rail Strike (1911, U.S.)

★ Southern Lumber Operators' Strike (1911, U.S.)

★ Lawrence textile strike, often known as the Bread and Roses strike (1912, Lawrence, Massachusetts)

★ Waihi miners' strike (1912, Waihi, New Zealand)

★ Chicago Newspaper Strike (1912, U.S.)

★ Fur Workers' Strike (1912, U.S.)

★ Lawrence Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1912, U.S.)

★ Lousisiana Timber Workers' Strike (1912, U.S.)

★ New York City Hotel Strike (1912, U.S.)

★ West Virginia Mine War of 1912-1913 (U.S.)

★ Dublin Strike and Lockout (1913, Ireland)

★ Ludlow Massacre Strike (1913, Colorado)

★ Paterson silk strike (1913, Paterson, New Jersey)

★ Machinists' Strike and Boycott (1913 U.S.)

★ Michigan Copper Strike (1913, U.S.)

★ Paterson New Jersey, Textile Strike (1913, U.S.)

★ Rubber Workers' Strike (1913, U.S.)

★ Studebaker Motors Auto Workers' Strike (1913, U.S.)

★ Wheatland California Hop Riot 1913, U.S.)

★ Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Strike 1914, U.S.)

★ Burston Strike School (1914-1939, UK)

★ Standard Oil Strike (1915, U.S.)

★ Youngstown Ohio, Steel Strike (1915, U.S.)

★ Arizona Copper Strike (1916, U.S.)

★ Minnesota Iron Range Strike (1916, U.S.)

★ New York City, Transit Strike (1916, U.S.)

★ New York City, Cloakmakers' Strike (1916, U.S.)

★ Standard Oil Strike (1916, U.S.)

★ Bisbee Arizona, Miners' Strike (1917, U.S.)

★ Butte Montana, Miners' Strike (1917, U.S.)

★ East Saint Louis Riot (1917, U.S.)

★ Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike (1917, U.S.)
Wave of postwar strikes sweeps U.S.

★ BLE Strike in New York City (1918, U.S.)

★ Police officers' strike, (1918-19) United Kingdom

★ Centralia Massacre (Washington) (1919, U.S.)

★ Boston Police Strike (1919, U.S.)

★ Actors' Strike (1919, U.S.)

★ Centralia Washington Massacre (1919, U.S.)

★ New England Telephone Strike (1919, U.S.)

★ 1919 Battle of George Square (UK)

★ Seattle General Strike of 1919

★ Steel strike of 1919 (U.S.)

★ Winnipeg General Strike (1919, Canada)

1920s

★ Battle of Matewan (1920, U.S.)

★ Alabama Miners' Strike (1920, U.S.)

★ Clothing Woerkers' Lockout (1920, U.S.)

★ West Virginia Coal Wars (1920-21, U.S.)

★ Battle of Blair Mountain (1921, U.S.)

★ Seamen's Strike (1921, U.S.)

★ Black Friday (1921) (UK)

★ Great Railroad Strike of 1922 (U.S.)

★ Herrin massacre (1922, U.S.)

★ Anthracite Coal Strike (1922, U.S.)

★ Bituminous Coal Strike (1922, U.S.)

★ Railroad Shopmen's Strike (1922, U.S.)

★ 1923 Victorian Police strike (Australia)

★ Ammanford Anthracite Strike (1925, UK)

★ Anthracite Coal Strike (1925, U.S.)

★ Passaic New Jersey, Textile Strike (1926, U.S.)

★ Bituminous Coal Strike (1927, U.S.)

★ Columbine Mine Massacre Strike (1927, U.S.)

★ New Bedford Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1928, U.S.)

★ Banana massacre (1928, Colombia)

★ 1929 Timber Workers strike (Australia)

★ Lupeni Strike of 1929 (Romania)

★ Rothbury Riot (1929, Australia)

★ The Loray Mill Strike 1929 (U.S.)

★ Gastonia North Carolina, Textile Strike (1929, U.S.)

1930s

★ Imperial Valley California, Farmworkers' Strike (1929, U.S.)

★ Harlan County Kentucky, Miners' Strike (1931, U.S.)

★ Tampa Florida, Cigar Workers' Strike(1931, U.S.)

★ Ådalen shootings (1931, Sweden)

★ Battle of Evarts (1931, U.S.)

★ Invergordon Mutiny (1931, UK)

★ Bonus Army March on Washington D.C. (1932, U.S.)

★ California Pea Pickers' Strike (1932, U.S.)

★ Century Airlines Pilots' Strike (1932, U.S.)

★ Davidson-Wiler Tennessee, Coal Strike (1932, U.S.)

★ Ford Hunger March Detroit Michigan (1932, U.S.)

★ Vacaville California, Tree Pruners' Strike (1932, U.S.)

★ Griviţa Strike of 1933 (Romania)

★ Briggs Manufacturing Strike (1933, U.S.)

★ California Farmworkers' Strike (1933, U.S.)

★ Detroit Michigan Tool and Die Strike (1933, U.S.)

★ New Mexico Miners' Strike (1933, U.S.)

★ Harlem New York, Jobs-for-Negroes-Boycott (1934, U.S.)

★ Imperial Valley California, Farmworkers' Strike (1934, U.S.)

★ Auto-Lite Strike (1934, Toledo Ohio, U.S.)

★ Textile Workers' Strike (1934, U.S.)

★ Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 (U.S.)

★ Rubber Workers' Strike (1934, U.S.)

★ Textile workers Strike (1934) (U.S.)

★ 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike (U.S.)

★ NewarkStar-Ledger Strike (1934, U.S.)

★ Battle of Ballantyne Pier (1935, Canada)

★ Copperbelt strike (1935) (Zambia)

★ Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Metal workers' strike (1935, U.S.)

★ Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike (1935, U.S.)

★ On-to-Ottawa Trek (1935)

★ Southern Sharecroppers' and Farm Laborers' Strike (1935, U.S.)

★ Atlanta Georgia, Auto Workers' Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)

★ Berkshire Knitting Mills Strike (1936, U.S.)

★ General Motors Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)

★ RCA Strike (1936, U.S.)

★ Seamens' Strike (1936, U.S.)

★ Seattle Post-Intelligencer Newspaper Strike (1936, U.S.)

★ Rubber Workers' Strike (1936, U.S.)

★ S.S. California strike (1936, U.S.)

★ Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937 (U.S.)

★ Flint Sit-Down Strike General Motors (1936-1937, U.S.)

★ Hershey Pennsylvania, Chocolate Workers' Strike (1937, U.S.)

★ Memorial Day massacre of 1937 "Little Steel Strike" (U.S.)

★ Chicago Newspaper Strike (1938, U.S.)

★ Maytag Strike (1938, U.S.)

★ Hilo Hawaii Massacre (1938, U.S.)

★ Chrysler Auto Strike (1939, U.S.)

★ General Motors Tool and Diemakers' Strike (1939, U.S.)

1940s

★ Ford Motor Strike (1940, U.S.)

★ Disney animators' strike (1941, U.S.)

★ Allis-Chalmers Strike (1941, U.S.)

★ Captive Coal Miners' Strike (1941, U.S.)

★ Detroit Michigan, Hate Strike against Black Workers (1941, U.S.)

★ February Strike (1941, Netherlands)

★ International Harvester Strike (1941, U.S.)

★ New York City Bus Strike (1941, U.S.)

★ North American Aviation Strike (1941, U.S.)

★ 1942 Luxembourg General Strike (1942, Luxembourg)

★ 1942-43 musicians' strike (U.S.)

★ Bituminous Coal Strike (1943, U.S.)

★ Detroit Michigan, Hate Strike against Black Workers (1943, U.S.)

★ Detroit Michigan Race Riot (1943, U.S.)

★ Hollywood Black Friday (U.S.)

★ Philadelphia Transit Strike (1944, U.S.)

★ Port Chicago mutiny (1944, U.S.)

★ Kelsey-Hayes Strike (1945, U.S.)

★ New York City Longshoreman's Strike (1945, U.S.)

★ Montgomery Ward Strike (1945, U.S.)

★ Oil Workers' Strike (1945, U.S.)

★ Bituminous Coal Strike (1946, U.S.)

★ Electrical Manufacturing Strike (1946, U.S.)

★ General Motors' Strike (1946, U.S.)

★ Pittsburgh Power Strike (1946, U.S.)

★ Railroad Strike (1946, U.S.)

★ Steel Strike (1946, U.S.)

★ 1946 Pilbara strike, (Western Australia)

★ R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Strike (1947, U.S.)

★ Telephone Strike (1947, U.S.)

★ 1948 Queensland Railway strike (Australia)

★ Asbestos Strike (1949) Quebec, Canada

★ 1949 Australian coal strike (1949)

★ Hawaiian Dock Strike (1949, U.S.)

1950s

★ Atlanta transit strike of 1950 (U.S.)

★ "Salt of the Earth" Strike of New Mexico Miners (1950, U.S.)

★ New Zealand waterfront strike (1951)

★ 1952 steel strike (1952, U.S.)

★ Louisiana Sugarcane Workers' Strike (1953, U.S.)

★ Kohler Strike (1954, U.S.)

★ Southern Telephone Strike (1955, U.S.)

★ East Coast Longshoreman's Strike (1956, U.S.)

★ Steel Strike (1956, U.S.)

★ Hock Lee bus riots (1955, Singapore)

★ Steel strike of 1959 (U.S.)

1960s

★ General Electric Strike (1960, U.S.)

★ Seamen's Strike (1960, U.S.)

★ New York City Newspaper Strike (1962, U.S.)

★ East Coast Longshoreman's Strike (1962, U.S.)

★ Reesor Siding Strike of 1963 (Canada)

★ 1964 Mt Isa Mines Strike (1964-5, Australia)

★ Delano grape strike (1965-1970, U.S.)

★ 1966 New York City transit strike (U.S.)

★ Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots

★ The Gurindji Strike (1966, Australia)

★ New York City Transportation Strike (1966, U.S.)

★ Copper Strike (1967, U.S.)

★ New York City Teachers' Strikes (1968, U.S.)

★ Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968 (U.S.)

★ Charleston South Carolina, Hospital Workers' Strike (1969, U.S.)

★ Montreal Police Strike (1969, Canada) see also Murray-Hill riot

1970s

★ Colour Strike (1970-1971, UK)

★ 1970 UPR Strike

★ U.S. Postal Service strike of 1970 first U.S. nationwide strike of public employees

★ General Motors Strike (1970, U.S.)

★ New York City Police Strike (1971, U.S.)

★ Farrah Clothing Workers' Strike and Boycott (1972, U.S.)

★ Lordstown Ohio, Auto Workers' Strike (1972, U.S.)

★ Philadelphia Teachers' Strike (1972, U.S.)

★ 1972 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)

★ Coal miners' strike of 1973 (UK)

★ Baltimore police strike (1974, U.S.)

★ 1974 UPR strike

★ Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974 (U.S.)

★ Ulster Workers' Council Strike (1974, UK)

★ Washington Post Pressmen's Strike (1975, U.S.)

★ Grunwick Dispute (1976-1977) London

★ Coors Beer Strike and Boycott (1977, U.S.)

★ J.P. Stevens Boycott (1977, U.S.)

★ Willmar Minnesota, Bank Workers' Strike (1977, U.S.)

★ Bituminous Coal Strike of 1977-1978 (U.S.)

★ Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, Newspapaer Strike (1978, U.S.)

★ Winter of Discontent (1978-1979, UK)

★ Independent Truckers' Strike (1979, U.S.)

1980s

★ 1980 New York City transit strike (April 1980, U.S.)

★ 1980 AFTRA/Screen Actors Guild strike (summer 1980, U.S.)

★ Gdańsk Shipyard Strike (August 1980, Poland)

★ Air traffic controllers' strike (1981, U.S.)

★ Bydgoszcz events (March 1981, Poland)

★ 1981 UPR strike

★ 1981 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)

★ 1981 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)

★ Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983 (1983, U.S.)

★ Yale University Clerical Workers' Strike (1984, U.S.)

★ Battle of Orgreave (1984, UK)

★ UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985)

★ Hormel Meatpackers' Strike (1985, U.S.)

★ Los Angeles County Sanitary Workers' Strike (1985, U.S.)

★ Yale University Clerical Workers' Strike (1985, U.S.)

★ Trans World Ailrlines Flight Attendants' Strike (1986, U.S.)

★ United States Steel Lockout (1986, U.S.)

★ Major Indoor Soccer League I Lockout two-week lockout (1986 U.S.)

★ Wapping dispute (1986, UK)

★ International Paper strike (1987, U.S.)

★ Professional Football Players' Strike (1987, U.S.)

★ 1988 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)

★ 1989 Australian pilots' strike

★ Eastern Airline Workers' Strike (1984, U.S.)

★ Pittston Coal Strike (1989-90, U.S.)

1990s

★ Mandal Commission protests of 1990 (India, 1990)

★ Timex strike (1993)

★ 1994 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)

★ Liverpool Dockers' Strike (1995-1998)

★ 1995 strikes in France

★ 1996-1997 strikes in South Korea

★ 1998 Australian waterfront dispute

★ 1999 Vieques Strikes

2000s

★ National Gallery of Canada employees 9-week strike (2001, Canada)

★ Actors Strike 2001

★ UK Firefighter strike 2002

★ AFSCME, CUE, UPTE - one day Strikes against University of California (2003, U.S.)

★ Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike - 2003

★ 2004 CN Rail workers strike (Canada)

★ 2004-05 NHL lockout (U.S. and Canada)

★ Bolivian Gas War (2005)

★ 2005 New York City transit strike

★ 2005 UPR strike

★ 2006 labor protests in France

★ 2006 Oaxaca protests (Mexico)

★ 2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute (New Zealand)

★ South Korean railroad strike of 2006

★ 2006 TTC wildcat strike

★ University of Miami 2006 custodial workers' strike (U.S.)

★ 2007 South African public servants' strike

★ 2007 Orange County transit strike
==Chronological list of general strikes==

★ 1820 Rising, Scotland

★ Saint Louis General Strike, (1877, U.S.)

★ New Orleans General Strike (1892, U.S.)

★ Philadelphia General Strike (1910, U.S.)

★ 1912 Brisbane General Strike, Queensland, Australia

★ Seattle General Strike of 1919

★ Winnipeg General Strike of 1919

★ UK general strike of 1926

★ French general strike of 1933

★ San Francisco general strike of 1934

★ Uprising of 1953 in East Germany

★ French general strike of May 1968

★ Uruguay general strike of 1973

★ Ulster Workers' Council Strike, 1974

★ Spanish general strike of 1988

★ April 1992 general strike in Nepal

★ Puerto Rico general strike of 1998

★ Venezuelan general strike of 2002-2003

★ 2006 democracy movement in Nepal

★ Guinea general strike of 2007

See also

★ Timeline of Labor unions in the United States

Sources

''Labor conflict in the United States'', An encyclopedia. edited by Ronald Filippelli, assisted by Carol Reilly - Garland Publishing New York & London 1990 (ISBN: 082407968X)

External links

★ Chronology of general strikes

★ List of labor events in U.S. history

★ List of recent strikes

★ Recent strikes and other labour news